## What is kanban Kanban is simple and provides a clear arrangement, which is used in several software tools, including Odoo, Trello, Kanbanote and Ayoa. Kanban is psychologically reassuring because all cards are visible. This satisfies the brain that you’re managing ‘everything’ and eliminates worry. I feel sure that [David Allen](https://gettingthingsdone.com/) would agree with this in terms of #GTD, where the approach is getting your ideas and concerns out of the mind and recorded. Kanban is a scheduling system for lean or just-in-time manufacturing, developed by Taiichi Ohno, an industrial engineer at Toyota, to improve efficiency. It takes its name from the cards that track production within a factory. The kanban method maintains inventory levels and signal when to manufacture and deliver a new shipment as material is consumed. It brings extraordinary visibility to suppliers and buyers, and highlights problem areas by measuring lead time and cycle time of the full process and its component stages. Kanban is widely used in manufacturing, but it can also be applied to other industries. Kanban is used in software development to manage and improve work across human systems. This approach aims to balance demand with available capacity, and by improving the handling of system-level bottlenecks. ## Kanban at the heart of the system Kanban is used in Trello, Kanbanote (for Evernote), Odoo, and Ayoa. ![[kanban-at-the-heart-of-the-system.png]] Kanban at the heart of this system to publish an internet site through Evernote. Its aim is to tag Evernotes ‘published’ and then convert an Evernote stack into a website using postach.io. Second, there is a lot of ‘potential’ content, which can be sorted using Kanbanote to organize it by tag. ## Kanbanote Kanban A kanban based on Evernote. See how to [[Use Kanbanote to display Evernotes in a kanban]] ![[kanbanote organising evernote content.png]] ## Trello kanban The Trello kanban can work similarly to focus on the task at hand, not just blogging or writing content, but all personal and work tasks, both from the operational to the strategic. Trello kanban driving GTD activity: ![[Trello kanban.png]] And finally [Odoo](https://odoo.com/), which can manage CRM, orders and direct order-related tasks: ![[odoo kanban for CRM.png]] All these systems use the kanban principal, which is clear, and clarity is important when there’s a lot to do. ## Ayoa kanban Ayoa kanban uses a kanban-like presentation and has a very good modelling interface ![[ayoa-workflow.png]] ## Odoo Kanban Kanban is an excellent planning tool; it’s flexible; you can establish sequences and deadlines, with columns as stages or projects. ![[12.00 mjl-tek/12.07 posts/Attachments/odoo-kanban.png]] Any Todo (Gneo): was very promising, bringing together Evernote and Eisenhower, but unfortunately, synchronization was unreliable and there was no simple efficient fast, work area like Todoist. ## Todoist kanban Todoist remains one of the most flexible, the most available, the easiest to use and the most reliable. Although tasks can’t be ordered manually, Toodledo is well supported with add-ons and has some nice mobile apps, especially DGT, which has a nice way of linking tasks to goals. Screen print of todoist kanban in kanbanist: ![[todoist-kanbanist-overview.png]] Todoist has now integrated its own native kanban board. This is an example of the board view in todoist: ![[Todoist board view.png]] Todoist sync is excellent, reliable and fast and it can quickly become a trusted system. The horizontal presentation of kanban is more natural, rather than the downward presentation in todoist. Todoist is very well suited to use with [[Getting Things Done management framework]] because it includes the notion of the inbox and can quickly become your trusted system. ## Conclusion Although the choice of software tool is yours, we recommend the kanban presentation, used originally to manage stock in Japanese factories. It uses visual markers to show when items were lacking. It’s a simple ‘one after the other’ presentation, which the brain can understand easily, at a glance.